Improvement in water-wheels



' NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

REUBEN D. SAYRE, OF WESTERVILLE, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN WATER-WHEELS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 181,365, dated August22, 1876; application filed March 21, 1876.

My invention consists of the buckets of an overshot or breast wheel,pivoted to the wheelrims so as to remain upright and hold the wateruntil the center is reached at the bottom, when they are tilted by a 0amto empty the water, by which the Wheel retains all the water as long asit can do any good, and the weight can be applied farther from thecenter of the Wheel by pivoting the buckets at the periphery of theWheel-rims.

Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of my improved water-Wheel and Fig. 2is a front elevation. v

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A- represents the buckets, which are pivoted to the wheel-rims B at ornear the periphery (3, so as to remain upright and hold all the water aslong asit is efficient, when they are tilted by a crank, D, and cam E,and the water emptied, after which they return to the upright positionagain while ascending to the place as new and desire tosecure by LettersPat ent- 1. The buckets A of an overshot or breast Wheel, pivoted to theWheel-rims, and pro vided with an arm, D, and a cam, E, for emptyingthem, substantially as specified.

2. The cam for tilting the buckets, extended from the point of tiltingthe buckets to the point of filling them, or thereabout, substantiallyas specified.

3. The combination of cross-bar F with the tilting bucket A and thewheel-rims, substantially as specified.

. REUBEN DOUGLASS SAYRE.

Witnesses:

WM. HANBY, A.-B. HENDERSON-

